On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 10:10:39 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Monday 24 October 2005 09:04 pm, darren kirby wrote:
>> quoth the Fredrik Lundh:
>> > (using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)
>>
>> Silly? Sure. os.listdir() is more on point. Never
Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think Mr. Lundh's point was only that the output from glob.glob is already
> guaranteed to be strings, so using either '%s'%f or str(f) is superfluous.
Just for the record - this was why I asked what the point was in the
first place.
On Monday 24 October 2005 09:04 pm, darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Fredrik Lundh:
> > (using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)
>
> Silly? Sure. os.listdir() is more on point. Never said I was the smartest.
> However, I will defend my post by pointing out that at
On 25/10/2005, at 3:36 PM, Steven Bethard wrote:
> I wouldn't fret too much about a sharp remark from Fredrik Lundh.
> They're pretty much all that way. ;) [...] It takes a little
> training to get used to
> him, but if you can look past the nasty bite, he's really a valuable
> resource around h
darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the Fredrik Lundh:
>
>>(using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)
>
[snip]
>
> It is things like this that make me wary of posting to this list, either to
> help another, or with my own q's. All I usually want is help with a specific
quoth the Fredrik Lundh:
> (using either on the output from glob.glob is just plain silly, of course)
Silly? Sure. os.listdir() is more on point. Never said I was the smartest.
However, I will defend my post by pointing out that at the time it was the
only one that actually included code that di
Terry Hancock wrote:
> Note also that for those who count, "str(f)" is exactly as long
> (in keystrokes) as "'%s'%f", making the "just" a matter of opinion.
the % implementation still has to create an overallocated output buffer,
parse the format string, call str() on the argument, verify the res
On Monday 24 October 2005 11:24 am, Peter Hansen wrote:
> Answering narrowly, the difference is that using "%s" calls str() on the
> items in the result list, while your suggestion does not. ("Why not
> just use str(f) instead of the less clear '%s' % f?" would be a valid
> question too though.
Kent Johnson wrote:
>import os
>files = os.listdir('.')
>
Thanks, that's good to know. I still need to use os.popen() for a few
things, but I'll be needing filenames also, so when I try to get
filenames I'll use the above.
James
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Mike Meyer wrote:
> darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>If all you want is filenames this will work:
>>
>import glob
>files = ["%s" % f for f in glob.glob("*")]
>
>
> What's the point of doing "%s" % f? How is this different from just
> file = [f for f in glob.glob("*")]?
Answe
darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If all you want is filenames this will work:
import glob
files = ["%s" % f for f in glob.glob("*")]
What's the point of doing "%s" % f? How is this different from just
file = [f for f in glob.glob("*")]?
http://www.mired.
darren kirby wrote:
> quoth the James Colannino:
>>So, for example, in Perl I could do something like:
>>
>>@files = `ls`;
>>
>>So I guess I'm looking for something similiar to the backticks in Perl.
>>Forgive me if I've asked something that's a bit basic for this list.
>>Any help would be greatly
quoth the James Colannino:
> Hey everyone. First off, I'm new to the list. I had had a little bit
> of experience with Perl before discovering Python. The more Python I
> learn, the more I love it :) I just have a quick question to ask. I
> know that this is probably a simple question, but I'v
Mike Meyer wrote:
>This is a scripting language feature. Python doesn't have direct
>support for it, any more than C++ does. To get that functionality, you
>want to use either the os.popen function, or - preferable, but only
>available in newer Pythons - the subprocess module.
>
>
Thanks.
Jame
James Colannino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey everyone. First off, I'm new to the list. I had had a little bit
> of experience with Perl before discovering Python. The more Python I
> learn, the more I love it :) I just have a quick question to ask. I
> know that this is probably a simple
Hey everyone. First off, I'm new to the list. I had had a little bit
of experience with Perl before discovering Python. The more Python I
learn, the more I love it :) I just have a quick question to ask. I
know that this is probably a simple question, but I've been googling
around, and par
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